Senate Proceeding on May 7th, 2009 :: 2:49:15 to 2:51:10
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Carl Levin: vote the presiding officer: are there any accepts wishing to vote or to chain their vote? seeing none, the ayes are 93 and the 0. s. 45344, a

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Speech By: Carl Levin

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Carl Levin: passed. mr. levin: madam president, just very briefly, we have done tremely well with this overwhelming vote for the passage of senate bill 454, the weapons systems acquisition reform act on a bipartisan basis which is the way it should be done on matters of national

2:49:40 to 2:50:01( Edit History Discussion )

Carl Levin: defense a a whole host of other ways. i'm very grateful, deeply grateful, to my friend, our ranking member, senator mccain. and, of course, a large share of this moment belongs to our hard-working and very talented staf led on our side by risk

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Carl Levin: debolbus and our special collective thanks must also be given to peter levine and craig green on the majority staff. and to richard phone chris p and we thank them all for their hardork. it will bear fruit, we hope, within the next month when w work something out with the house and over the coming years

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Carl Levin: we will save taxpayers' but when we provide the right equipment to our troops, they deserve the best we can get and to make sure we don't waste the defense when we do that we not only are hurting the taxpayer but we are depriving our troops of funds they need for needed weapon systems. so madam president, i yield the floor and i note the

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Carl Levin: a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call